When searching in Kate/KWrite/KEdit/etc., the dialog window opens by default in the middle of the text window, hiding potential matches. If, in the 'Find' dialog window, one clicks on the left icon in the application's menu bar and go to Advanced => 'Special window settings' and enables 'Placement', 'Force', 'Under Mouse' in the Geometry tab, then goes to the Window tab and changes 'Window class' to 'Unimportant' (and makes sure that 'Window role' is 'searchdialog'), the Find window will then open centered on wherever the cursor is placed, instead of the middle of the text window.
Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0
Am Montag, 24. Mai 2021 schrieb J Leslie Turriff:
When searching in Kate/KWrite/KEdit/etc., the dialog window opens by default in the middle of the text window, hiding potential matches. If, in the 'Find' dialog window, one clicks on the left icon in the application's menu bar and go to Advanced => 'Special window settings' and enables 'Placement', 'Force', 'Under Mouse' in the Geometry tab, then goes to the Window tab and changes 'Window class' to 'Unimportant' (and makes sure that 'Window role' is 'searchdialog'), the Find window will then open centered on wherever the cursor is placed, instead of the middle of the text window.
Appreciated muchly, thanks. I've always been slightly annoyed by this behaviour.
Cheers, Stefan
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J Leslie Turriff -
Stefan Krusche